The Bumblebeez are Chris Colonna and friends. Chris records everything onto his laptop and cuts it up, then adds weird noises, his sister's rapping, his friend Surya playing extra instruments and even his Mum screaming! It's dirty, raw, and strangely funky.

The Bumblebeez like to buzz around and find honey.
When I'm not playing music I'm: at art school getting ready for my graduation show, or playing tennis.

Chris with his laptop

This is my laptop which I got in New York. It's been handy because it's basically a portable studio for my music. Go to my website and check out my stuff.

Flash is another great medium 'cause I like to draw rough marks. I like to use it as a rough animation tool. To be able to give it the digital flavour as well as add my sound to it. For me it's a good way to combine my art with my music.

This is an old Juno 60 Roland, crazy old keyboard from the music room of Dickson College, where I went to high school. Me and my mates used to always borrow this from Dickson College school and get some filthy sounds out of it.

Surya: The whole Bumblebeez element comes down to the producing skills and getting the computer and editing and it's all slapdash and there's a lot of things I don't understand what Chris is doing.

It's like, chop this, chop that. And I'm like 'What are you doing! That was good!' He'll be adventurous to find something else and he's happy to put weird things in weird places.

Name:

Pia (aka Queen ViLa)

Age:

19

Plays:

Hip Hop vocalizer

Favourite ACT venue:

Monbasa

Most cherished musical item:

My dictaphone

The music scene in the ACT is:

pretty tight for metal and jazz, but Hip Hop isn't as phat as it could be.

Canberra is:

a place for politicians

Queen ViLa: We're at Belconnen Skate Park, where we'd used to come and skate and muck around. I bust some rhymes when Chris needs some for the Bumblebeez. I love doing what I do with my brother. He produces all my tracks and it's great. There's not that many chick MCs out there. We need more…